Cancer: Medical Treatments

(asked on 5th May 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Henry Smith Portrait
Henry Smith
(Conservative - Crawley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people received chemotherapy treatment in (a) April 2019 and (b) April 2020 for the treatment of (i) breast cancer, (ii) bowel cancer, (iii) lung cancer, (iv) blood cancer and (v) prostate cancer.

Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 29th May 2020

The data in the following table shows first or subsequent treatment of all anti-cancer drug regimens (including ‘cytotoxic chemotherapy’, ‘hormone therapy’, ‘immunotherapy’ and ‘other’) for April 2019:

Breast

Lower Gastrointestinal

Lung

Haematological

Urological

3,458

1,060

1,247

1,950

3,354

The data for April 2020 is due to be published in June 2020.

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